The infographic features a map showing Netflix subscriptions as a share of broadband households. This demonstrates the penetration the international service has achieved for its addressable audience over 2017 in each respective market.
The infographic is using the updated data from IHS Markit, for service consumption as well as the measure of connected households.

Time Warner’s HBO has made subscription to its online video service, HBO Go, available on standalone basis in four markets of Central & Eastern Europe. With its timing, this is a smart move on the part of HBO. While the service is likely to turn out as an attractive offer for the target market, the move won't be pleasing to company's distributing telecom operator partners.

Liberty Global has agreed to acquire Multimedia Polska, the third largest cable company in Poland, through its subsidiary UPC Polska. The deal is valued at PLN 3 billion ($760 million), but Liberty Global warned that the price may be adjusted downwards due to the operational and financial performance of Multimedia Polska prior to closure. The deal is subject to regulatory approval.

Netflix has identified Poland and Turkey as its next targets for service localisation, and in Poland has already introduced local pricing. Previously available for €7.99, €9.99 or €11.99 a month, it is now respectively priced at PLN 34, PLN 43 and PLN 52.

Subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service ShowMax, has expanded its reach to 37 Sub-Saharan African countries. The online TV and movie service, which is a subsidiary of multinational media group Naspers, launched first in South Africa in August of 2015, with the remaining countries launching in May of 2016.

This report examines the impact of Netflix's SVOD services on the physical video business in the USA and UK, and in particular on the sale and rental of movies and TV content. It assesses the likely impact of Netflix's 2015 launches on the physical video markets of Australia and Japan.

The Australian Government will impose a GST on digital products and services from 1 July 2017. The measure, announced as part of the Australian Federal Budget 2015, aims to ensure that the GST is consistent for both Australian and international providers.

Australian online video subscription company, Quickflix has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to acquire a China-based content production company subject to satisfactory completion of further due diligence. Launched in 2003 as a DVD-by-post service, Quickflix launched a Subscription Video on Demand (SVoD) streaming service in Australia during October 2011 followed by the expansion of its streaming service to New Zealand in May 2012. As such, the foray into China marks a new direction for the company.

HOOQ, the online video platform backed by Singaporean telco giant Singtel, Warner Brothers and Sony Pictures, has launched its service in India. The subscription video-on-demand (SVoD) service features 5,000 Hollywood movie and series titles and over 10,000 local ones. priced at 199 rupees ($3.20) a month, HOOQ will allow subscribers to stream content on up to five devices including PCs, smartphones and tablets.

Netflix has announced that its service will be launched in Australia and New Zealand on 24 March 2015. Consumers can look forward to original content, local as well as foreign series and films available on smart televisions, set-top boxes, games consoles, tablets and smartphones.

The sale of TV episodes and series through transactional online digital retailers (i.e. Apple and Google), has failed to match the pace of expanding movie availability geographically seen on a global scale

Global online video service Netflix has announced that it is going to enter Australia and New Zealand in March 2015. Outside the USA, Netflix is already available in Canada, Latin America, the UK and Ireland, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium. Australia and New Zealand bring the number of countries with the service to more than 50.

Asia-Pacific consumers will spend a total of $7.8 billion buying and renting physical and digital video in 2014, including DVDs and Blu-ray Discs (BD) as well as video consumed via digital and online platforms and services.